01748cam a2200289 i 4500 2613600370 TxAuBib 20251104120000.0 210716s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021034300 9780593134290 acid-free paper 059313429X acid-free paper TxAuBib rda Fairbrother, Alison, author. The catch : a novel / Alison Fairbrother. New York : Random House, 2022. 275 p. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Two years out of college, Ellie Adler has a job in journalism, an older lover, and a circle of smart friends. Her beloved father, James, who has children from three marriages, unites the family with his gentle humor and charisma, but Ellie has always believed she is her father's favorite. When he suddenly dies, she finds herself devastated by the unexpected loss. Then, at the reading of his will, she learns that instead of leaving her his prized possession—a baseball that holds emotional resonance for them both—he has left her a seemingly ridiculous, even insulting gift. Worse, he’s given the baseball to someone no one in the family has ever heard of. In her grief, Ellie wonders who could have possibly meant more to her father than she did. Setting out to track this person down, she learns startling information about who her father really was and who she herself is becoming. 20251104. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Grief Fiction. TXMOO